[Wiz33]

Originally Posted by Nangleator

This mission was scary for me, in that I didn't realize the point was to launch at the circle. I thought the mission required me to launch from WITHIN the circle.

My mission was eventful.

Given the very shallow water and enemy presence (there's a Bear-F, too,) I knew I had to be direct, in order to have the peace to approach and fire a few salvos. So, I went rock-n-roll on the Grishas and everything else I could reach. Eventually ran the helo out of torps, and headed straight for the "launch point."

That's when the Bear started making his runs.

I was avoiding his torpedoes nicely, and got within the circle, though I couldn't spare the attention to fire anything. I got three fish behind me, and was easily avoiding them. One ran out of energy. Then, one other. The last of them then drove in and killed me. It just ignored the same tactics and distractions that had worked on it before, and got me.

Now, I'm almost glad to know my mission was doomed from the start, because firing from the target circle would have failed me anyway. I would have been livid.

Yea, that's what I thought too. Need to go back and read the briefing but it should be made clearer to the player that the circle is the initial nav point for the TLAM rather than a launch point.